I don't think that this is supported in the qcplugin API, and I think there are some peculiarities that make it difficult to impossible even in the private API to interface with the built in iterator and iterator variables. Do any known third party patches do this?
Best regards, gt On Aug 24, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Achim Breidenbach <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > I don't know exactly how the iterator patch is implemented, but I think there > are some performance optimizations going on. I think they are depending on if > there changes on the inport ports of a patch. > If the inputs don't changes, the patch isn't processed. Maybe you can force > the processing by having an dummy input where you connect the itorator index > to, just as a test. Does this change some thing? > > Just my 2 cents. > > Achim Breidenbach > Boinx Software Ltd. > > >> Am 24.08.2014 um 00:33 schrieb Benoît LAHOZ | L'ange Carasuelo >> <[email protected]>: >> >> Hi ! >> >> That's not the first time I have this trouble with one of my custom plug-ins >> in iterator patch, but now it's quite blocking. >> I can't understand how the iterator patch is internally working : it looks >> like I can't cache any variables in the plug-in if I want to use it in >> iterator. >> >> But, since 10.6 Smooth patches (which is the kind of patch I'm actually >> building) seems to be working in iterators, and I would like to know how >> it's possible. >> Any of my "time based" (even with time mode set to none, only dealing with >> cached variables) patch seems to be blocked. >> >> I've made a "spring" patch that is estimating the next position of a 3D >> point (NSArray input to 3 double values -> output NSArray again) and >> outputting the NSArray at each cycle, and it's like if the iterator was >> forcing a median value between my points... >> >> Any advice about this issue would be extremely appreciated ! >> >> Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/achim%40boinx.com >> >> This email sent to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/gtoledo3%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Quartzcomposer-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/quartzcomposer-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
